New band of the day – No 918: Io Echo

This LA duo's murky and mystical music conjures the 80s Liverpool of Echo and the Bunnymen and the MissionHometown: Los Angeles.The lineup: Leopold Ross and Ioanna Gika.The background: There we were, thinking we were lavishing too much praise on too many new bands, of being insufficiently critical and coolly detached, when we got collared last night by a throng – it might have been a horde, but it was late and it was dark – who told us in no uncertain terms that we need to make this column l...

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